Call for Entries Launched | Illuminate the Entrepreneurship Journey. The 2025 XMU-Torch Entrepreneurship Camp Helps Hard-tech Startups Break Through.
Searching for the Great Enterprises of the Future and Embarking on the Journey of Technological Innovation Together
The global technological landscape is undergoing profound changes. In the field of artificial intelligence, enterprises from various countries are increasingly competing fiercely in the technological race for large - model research and development; in the semiconductor field, core enterprises in multiple regions are increasing their investment in semiconductor research; in the new energy sector, the competition in areas such as solid - state batteries is intensifying... According to the prediction in McKinsey Global Institute's "The Main 'Battlefields' of the Future", 18 high - growth industries, including AI software and services, semiconductors, and biotechnology, will become the core forces to reshape the business landscape and the global economy. Meanwhile, the technology iteration cycle is sharply shortening, and the reconstruction of the industrial chain is accelerating, bringing unprecedented opportunities and challenges to technology entrepreneurs.
Seizing the pulse of the era, Xiamen University and Xiamen Torch High - tech Zone have joined hands to launch the 2025 Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Growth Camp and Nanyang Entrepreneurship Camp (hereinafter referred to as the "Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Camp"). This session of the Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Camp focuses on six major industry sectors, including advanced manufacturing, new energy, new materials, biomedicine and medical care, intelligent sensing semiconductors, and electronic information. It selects and cultivates outstanding technology - based entrepreneurship projects from university scientific research teams and early - to - mid - stage hard - technology teams, and provides free entrepreneurship coaching to comprehensively empower enterprise growth.
In this uncertain arena, the Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Camp aims to build a new - quality productivity ecosystem and help enterprises break through market barriers. It deeply links multiple resources, further promotes the integrated development of industry, academia, and research, facilitates the industrial transformation of excellent scientific research achievements, and contributes to the optimization of the national economic structure and industrial upgrading.
The strategic opportunity of breakthrough innovation technology is right in front of us. The Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Camp is looking for the next great enterprise to jointly hold the "torch" of technological innovation and light up a certain future in an uncertain era.
Deepening the Five - Dimensional Linkage to Help Innovators Set Sail
The city of Xiamen, a hub of technological innovation, is promoting the construction of a new high - ground for emerging industries and technological innovation through multi - dimensional cooperation in policy support, infrastructure construction, and upgrading of supporting services. Based in Xiamen and radiating across the country, the 2025 Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Camp will continue to build a five - dimensional linkage framework of "industry, academia, research, application, and finance", promoting resource cooperation among universities and research institutions, entrepreneurship enterprises, listed companies, and investment and financing service institutions to facilitate technological upgrading and industrial transformation.
Industry: As a professional incubation platform focusing on hard technology, the Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Camp always adheres to the construction of an "industry - academia - research integration" ecosystem. By efficiently integrating technology, talent, capital, and resources, it breaks down the barriers between basic research, technology development, and industrial application. This session of the camp will join hands with listed companies in the six major industry sectors to achieve industrial docking, technology grafting, capital linkage, and ecological co - construction.
Academia: The Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Camp deeply links resources from universities across the country. It not only focuses on the scientific research team projects of Xiamen University but also gathers relevant technology entrepreneurship projects of alumni from universities nationwide and early - to - mid - stage excellent projects in the hard - technology industry. It strengthens the communication and connection between schools and alumni, as well as between technology projects in the innovation field and university research, giving full play to the role of universities as the source of innovation.
Research: The Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Camp opens up the transformation channel between basic research and industrial application, constructs an efficient transmission mechanism from scientific development to commercial value, quickly integrates laboratory results into the industrial ecosystem, breaks through key technological bottlenecks, and enhances the social value and economic benefits of scientific research projects.
Application: Guided by practical application, the Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Camp provides enterprises with course guidance and systematic support to solve practical entrepreneurship problems, covering operation guidance, resource docking, and market application, helping enterprises break through development bottlenecks.
Finance: The Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Camp provides comprehensive financial support to help entrepreneurs truly achieve the leap from the "laboratory" to the "market". Projects that are selected to enter the camp and complete the corresponding courses and activities as required can receive a scholarship of 10,000 yuan; excellent projects have the opportunity to receive direct equity investment of 5 - 10 million yuan, providing full - cycle support for the transformation of technological achievements and empowering the long - term development of projects.
It is worth mentioning that this session of the entrepreneurship camp will be supported by the Xiamen Torch Science and Technology Achievement Transformation Fund with a scale of 1 billion yuan, building a complete financial matrix from concept verification to large - scale mass production. The achievement transformation fund provides financial support that matches the development stage needs of scientific research achievements from universities and research institutions, offering corresponding step - by - step financial solutions at each critical development stage, breaking through the efficiency boundary of scientific and technological achievement transformation, and accelerating the development of new - quality productivity.
Focusing on Entrepreneurship Practice to Empower the Innovation Journey
Entrepreneurship is not only a breakthrough in innovation but also a systematic battle in multiple dimensions, including business philosophy, enterprise management, equity financing, financial compliance, and intellectual property protection. The ability to effectively address these challenges directly determines the development potential and sustainability of an enterprise.
Combining years of experience in project incubation and investment and financing, the Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Camp centers around entrepreneurship practice and organizes a closed - door entrepreneurship training and coaching acceleration course. It offers courses related to investment and financing, legal affairs, finance, and enterprise management to enhance the participants' understanding of entrepreneurship, business models, and enterprise management. The training is divided into three phases, totaling 6 - 7 days. For each course, well - known expert tutors will be invited for targeted guidance. Starting from practical applications and specific scenarios, combined with case analysis and practical exercises, the participants' awareness and ability to solve practical problems will be rapidly improved.
Beyond the courses, the Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Camp and the course tutors will conduct long - term tracking and attention to the projects, accompany them through every critical development node, and provide targeted help and support.
Meanwhile, the Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Camp also arranges special sessions for resource docking to explore opportunities for collaborative cooperation and resource docking among participant enterprises, between participant enterprises and tutors, and between participant enterprises, universities, and listed companies, so as to establish long - term in - depth communication channels, promote the linkage of technology, market, and application, and continuously inject impetus into enterprise development.
Co - building a Hard - Technology Ecosystem to Illuminate the New Birth of the Industry
This session of the Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Camp provides free training and scholarship support for all projects entering the camp. At the same time, to support the long - term development of the projects, the entrepreneurship camp has also created the following exclusive empowerment systems for the selected official members:
1. Capital Engine: Opportunities to connect with more than 50 well - known equity investment institutions.
2. Publicity Potential: In - depth publicity and promotion of the selected projects in domestic cooperative media at all levels.
3. Practical Training: A 6 - 7 - day intensive closed - door training and full - cycle entrepreneurship services, including all - around entrepreneurship training by well - known tutors (in capital, law, finance, taxation, management, intellectual property, etc.), interactive visits between excellent enterprises and participant enterprises, financing coaching, and financing docking.
4. Ecosystem Empowerment: Building industrial resource linkages to promote synergies among participant enterprises or between participant enterprises and leading listed companies in the same industry.
5. Exclusive Escort: An exclusive service investment manager will track and understand the project team, help coach on entrepreneurship problems, and provide real - time suggestions for project development to assist project growth.
6. Investment Opportunities: Projects entering the camp will have the opportunity to receive direct equity investment of 5 - 10 million yuan from the camp's cooperative investment institutions. Projects for transformation from universities and research institutions will have the opportunity to receive multi - stage financial support of 0.5 - 15 million yuan from the Xiamen Torch Science and Technology Achievement Transformation Fund.
In the first five sessions of the Xiamen University Torch Entrepreneurship Camp, more than 500 entrepreneurship enterprises from across the country applied, and more than 100 excellent projects were selected for coaching and training. Among them, more than 20 projects received a total of over 300 million yuan in financing. In 2025, the recruitment for the new session of the entrepreneurship camp is about to start. In the wave of reshaping the global innovation landscape, we are looking for new forces of technological change and jointly witnessing the birth of the next great enterprise.
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